UPDATE: This has mostly become a project to recreate the iconic vintage cherry legends and use it to create a set of key caps with the Dolch color scheme that would also be available to future GH groupbuys.

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Ripster: I'm dead set on recreating these Dolch caps and though I am a newer member and have never done a group buy I feel fairly confident as long as there is enough interest and someone can help me iron out logistics.

Hashbaz: The reason I posted this interest check as opposed to joining R4/ R3 is because I don't want the oversized font but the upper left smaller (less obnoxious d: ) font.

That is a lot of obstacles to overcome, but with the popularity of this set I think it has a better chance of getting completed then \KL's set originally had and he was successful in getting enough people. although I know one person did buy multiple sets to get the order going.

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I am doing this independently of round 4 and it looks like this will work as long as we can get enought people... Should I post at OCN and Deskthority? If I can get 50 people would somebody be willing to help me with the SVGs and such?

I guess there were plenty of people willing to shell out $90 or whatever for keyboardlover's blue PBT set. It could happen.

The only reason I got that set was because it's PBT. Given the number of people who don't "need" a 100% dolch reproduction, compared with, say, the relatively large number of alternatives for good-looking grey keycaps, I don't think this'll work out well.

Although, if we can get SP to make up molds for the cherry font, it'd make later group buys better off.

Still need good quality pictures with the legends next to some kind of scale/ ruler. I don't own any OG cherry doubleshots... and the Dolch options on ebay are outrageous...

Older Cherry keyboards with cream/grey lasered PBT keys also have the same font ... sort of. The legends on the double-shot moulded keys are slightly fatter, but that difference might be negligible.Another problem is that Cherry's alignment when lasering these keys was not too precise at the beginning. Thin PBT keys are OK, but early thick PBT keys can be all over the place. (I don't know about dye-sublimated as I don't have any)

Dolch are exactly the same as regular Cherry double shots, except the colors. So actually the last Moogle kit SVGs would work perfectly for this Dolch project. But it might just be too costly to fab every single key.

Dolch are exactly the same as regular Cherry double shots, except the colors. So actually the last Moogle kit SVGs would work perfectly for this Dolch project. But it might just be too costly to fab every single key.

It will be VERY expensive, people would be better off just buying a legit set then getting a moogle kit

Can you get thick walled caps made of ABS or are you just trying to replicate the colors?

Also, you should be specific that you're referring to Dolch PAC 60-64 and not the earlier Dolch which had Cherry Blue MX but pad printed caps with Army green modifiers... or the later PAC65 which was a rubber dome.

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